RETURN FOR CREDIT ON REPURCHASE

RETURN FOR CREDIT ON RETURN FOR REPURCHASE

Maybe 4 years ago REI started a program advising customers they could return used garments for a credit to use for another purchase. This program has grown throughout the industry where shoe companies want you to bring your worn shoes for recycling.

Again, a credit is given to you for a future purchase.

I have no idea how well[?] these programs are working. I can only imagine the nightmare of record keeping for all of these return transactions.

Now I am reading about one company who has applied their program to include sleeping bags [their no sleep sleeping bags].

The program is called “Endless Promise’. The following is how it works and I quote.

“Every item in the Endless Promise® collection is designed to reduce waste, encourage repair, and — most crucially — be fully recyclable when it can adventure no more. This is just one step in our journey to take responsibility for the gear we create from beginning to end.

Each item in the Endless Promise collection is painstakingly engineered for total recyclability.
That way, once this gear has accompanied you on its lifetime of adventures, it can easily become something new.

This is just one step in our effort to take full responsibility for what we make, from beginning to end.
Because with Endless Promise, there doesn't have to be an end.”

From what I have been reading they pay particular attention to the no sleep sleeping bags. Is that because they have been experiencing a high volume of returns as REI has for years.

Are they saying their product is wasteful, encouraging repair because fabric rips and will not last long. That said recycle the whole item.

“painstakingly engineered” [diligently] “for total recyclability”. So, they are functioning on the basis of planned obsolescence.

But they do state on their website that their products have a ‘lifetime warrantee”. This sounds like a contradiction.

So, the “endless promise” is that you buy the no sleep sleeping bags and when you decide to give it back mostly because it did not keep you warm, they will give you a credit towards a new one. Ultimately this return and replace can go on forever. That is the “endless promise”. So, you never ever get a sleeping bag.

I think all of these companies that initiate these programs is to actually generate revenue. This whole business about being responsible to save the planet is just talk.

Anyone who wants a sleeping bags buys a Wiggy’s sleeping bags because when you are in one you sleep. As for recycling they are used endlessly, from generation to generation.